microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript

Use LazyBarrel to improve IDE performance

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Description

### 🔍 Search Terms

"re-export", "barrel file", "optimization", "performance"

### ✅ Viability Checklist

- [x] This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
- [x] This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
- [x] This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
- [x] This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
- [x] This isn't a request to add a new utility type: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/No-New-Utility-Types
- [x] This feature would agree with the rest of our Design Goals: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Design-Goals

### ⭐ Suggestion

Can the Typescript Language Server implement and use its own version of the [LazyBarrel](https://rspack.rs/guide/optimization/lazy-barrel) optimization as an experimental feature to improve IDE performance?

### 📃 Motivating Example

This feature should improve IDE performance (e.g. type highlight) and reduce the impact of barrel files on Typescript codebases.

Explanation provided on [LazyBarrel](https://rspack.rs/guide/optimization/lazy-barrel).

### 💻 Use Cases

1. What do you want to use this for?

Improving IDE performance.

2. What shortcomings exist with current approaches?

Barrel files have a significant impact on IDE performance in Typescript codebases.

3. What workarounds are you using in the meantime?

Manually de-barreling packages.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the TypeScript Language Server and the linked LazyBarrel explanation to understand the proposed optimization and its scope. Identify an experimental integration point and a measurable IDE-performance scenario; done should demonstrate improved performance for barrel-heavy TypeScript code without changing runtime behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
developer-experience, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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